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Saturday, August 25, 2012

ANTI-SEMITISM?

The Arab Spring: organised by the CIA, NATO and Mossad.

Damien Thompson writes:

"Is a new and shocking wave of anti-Semitism engulfing the Middle East and the developing world?

"In Syria, towns and villages where Jews have lived for centuries are now almost entirely Muslim; these communities have fled to safer parts of the country, where they hope to escape an anti-Semitic massacre.

"In Egypt, the new regime is surreptitiously encouraging attacks on synagogues; the Jews, despised for their supposed wealth, fear that the “Arab spring” is about to release centuries of pent-up anti-Semitic hatred.

"In Nigeria, Jews have been attacked and killed while studying scripture. In Bangladesh, Jewish children are being forced into madrassas.

"In Pakistan, the body of an 11-year-old Jewish boy was discovered this week; he’d been tortured to death and his lips sliced off.

"You won’t have heard about this atrocious persecution.

"That’s because - forgive me - I’ve played one of the oldest tricks in the journalist’s book.

"For Jews, read Christians.

"For anti-Semitic, read anti-Christian.

"For synagogues read churches...

25 Christians were killed in Egypt in October 2012. Photo: EPA/KHALED ELFIQI

"The fall of Mubarak means that it’s open season on Copts.

"Those who can afford to do so may follow the example of Palestinian and Lebanese Christians and emigrate.

"A key statistic: 100 years ago, the Levant was 20 per cent Christian; now the figure is 5 per cent.

"The British government, despite prodding by the heroic Lord Alton, is doing a good imitation of not giving a stuff about any of this...

"There’s a real chance that all traces of Christianity will disappear from the very place where St Paul was knocked off his horse and blinded by a vision of the risen Christ..."